Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2460

Vein Maps

A series of colourful maps has revealed a breathtaking look at the vein-like network of river systems around the world, plotting the countless waterways that stretch across nearly every continent, from North America to Australia.

The maps, created by geographer and GIS analyst Robert Szucs, visualize permanent and temporary rivers and streams, using a rainbow of colours to differentiate the intricate branches.

Using a system known as Strahler Stream Order Classification, Szucs highlights the...

Let’s Tell the Truth

Much is written about slavery and its aftermaths. A large part of this is frenetically modified history issuing from people both excited and poorly read, a comic-book version apparently intended to support agendas of the impenetrably adolescent Left. A few points:

First, slavery was always bad, frequently hideous, much worse in the Deep South than in Tidewater or New York and consequent to the same desire for cheap labor that now results in importing Mexicans and exporting jobs to China. Any...

Dirt Is Good

New parents often inundate themselves with information to ensure that their child is being properly cared for. Our world is a ceaseless source of information, and trying to determine what information will benefit our family and children’s well-being, and what is just being marketed to us for profit, can be an overwhelming and difficult process.

NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro recently conducted an interview with scientist Jack Gilbert, who studies microbial ecosystems at the University of Chicago....

Eat Meat

I am on a vegan diet to deal with my cancer. I eat no animal protein. I probably never will again. That’s because I have cancer, and I have read Dr. John Kelly’s book, Stop Feeding Your Cancer.

I have been researching diets for five decades. I was restored to health by Francis Pottenger in 1949-50. His diet had a lot of red meat. It had no refined sugar, no processed white flour, and lots of steamed vegetables.

I have asked myself this: Do vegans live longer? They don’t. Statistical evidence...

The American Boobeosie Have Been Brainwashed

We’re seeing more and more congressional Democrats attempting to push the concept of Russian collusion onto the American electorate. I am just challenging it because it is a dangerous narrative, Max Blumenthal, American author and journalist, told RT.

The White House accused the media of “Russia fever” over reports about a supposed secret meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit earlier this month.

My video tour through the depths...

Equality ≠ Equal Quality

I have written on LRC about the book The Physics of Life by my friend Professor Adrian Bejan.  LRC readers might be interested his recent paper that he has sent me, The Physics Basis of Wealth Inequality (published in the Journal of Applied Physics), that purports to prove from physics principles and mathematical analysis that wealth inequality is necessary to wealth creation.

The fundamental concept follows Bejan’s Constructal Law that posits that the economy (wealth creation) is a flow syst...

Redeemer Nation

Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

–        Jesus Christ, Sermon on the Mount

Just one verse of perhaps the most stream-of-consciousness-what-it-means-to-follow-Christ passages offered straight from the-Son-of-God’s lips to man’s ears.

This thought was foundational to the birth of the American colonies (I have edited the text for easier reading):

…for we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon...

Trump Is Not in Charge

If truth has a chance it is in a different country than America.

Masters of propaganda from its inventor, Jewish public relations expert Edward Louis James Bernays, to the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, agree that a lie can be turned into truth by constant repetition.

The purer the lie, the more complete the success in turning it into The Truth. Lies partly based in fact or half-truths open themselves to factual challenge. For a propagandist the best lie is a lie unfettered...

Bank Assets Are Ephemeral

It is not only paper gold which is Fake. Few investors realise that most of their investments are Fake.

Fake news and Fake assets are everywhere. Let’s start with social media which dominates major parts of the world. Facebook, for example, has 2 billion active users. WhatsApp has 1.2 billion users and Instagram 700 million. There will obviously be quite a lot of overlap between the various social media. But what it is clear that these three Apps reach billions of people and their power is mu...

The Great Unmasking

Hopefully, it is becoming more and more obvious why The Establishment and its myrmidons in the Establishment Media (aka MSM) have their bodacious bloomers in a bunch over Everything Russia-Trump. It’s not about Who Met With Whom, Where Trump’s Ties Are Made or Secret Handshakes at the G-20. It sure as hell isn’t about the First or any other Amendment, Immigration, Border Walls or the perennial favorite, Guns ‘N Snowflakes. Nope. It’s all about The Great Unmasking.

Even that requires a little...